TILT has linked with other websites containing ideas, products, programs and services that you may find valuable to your patients. We encourage you to find other websites like the ones below and share them with us.

​Honor Flight Austin

Free Flights to Washington D.C. for Veterans:The Honor Flight Austin mission is to transport veterans with a specific priority to Washington, D.C. to visit their memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices and return them home to their families and loved ones. The cost is FREE for World War II, Korean War and terminally ill Veterans. Honor Flight Austin is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. www.honorflightaustin.org

Free Massages for Cancer Patients: This Austin-based nonprofit provides in part free massages in infusion rooms for cancer patients. You can learn more about this amazing non-profit by going to:www.oncologymassagealliance.org/

RonWear Port-Able Clothing

Clothing for Chemo, Dialysis and Infusion Patients to Wear in Treatment: This online, for profit store sells apparel with zippered openings for ports, for the purpose of keeping chemotherapy, dialysis & infusion patients warm, modest & comfortable in treatment. You can visit their website by clicking on:www.ronwear.com/

Heritage Medals

Military Shadow Boxes:Kevin McKenzie has a passion for military history and honoring the men and women who have been in military service. He has a mission of his own: "To create a tangible recognition of a veteran's service to his or her country, and in so doing promote in family and friends new levels of admiration, respect, and understanding." He does this by researching veterans' service records, acquiring medals and other awards commemorating that service, and then designing and constructing a shadow box containing these items of achievement for the veteran and his or her family.www.medalshadowbox.com

Books and Pamphlets -- Death and the Dying Process Explained“GONE FROM MY SIGHT -- The Dying Experience” By Barbara Karnes, RNBesides being the the author of the aforementioned booklet, she has authored many other books and booklets on which many providers of end-of-life care rely: My Friend I Care, The Eleventh Hour, and A Time to Live. Her book, The Final Act of Living, is used in universities, for hospice orientation of staff and volunteers and in end-of-life related areas, yet is also useful for any lay reader. Ms. Karnes’ 27-year career as an end-of-life educator is predicated on her experience as executive director of hospice and home health agencies as well as having worked through the hospice ranks as patient care manager, clinical director, staff nurse, and volunteer.This pamphlet and others by her can be purchased in bulk at minimal cost on her website: www.bkbooks.com/

GONE FROM MY SIGHT by Henry Van DykeI am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.Then someone at my side says: ‘There, she is gone!’“Gone Where?”Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port.Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” There are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “Here she comes!”And that is dying.

"WHEN DEATH IS NEAR -- A Caregiver's Guide"Created by Hospice of Santa Cruz County

Chaplain Hank Dunn wrote this book to provide guidance to patients and their families who must face the ‘hard choices’ that come with end-of-life. These “hard choices” revolve around four questions that require treatment decisions: 1. Shall resuscitation be attempted?2. Shall artificial nutrition and hydration be utilized?3. Should a nursing home resident or someone ill at home be hospitalized?4. Is it time to shift the treatment goal from cure to hospice or comfort care only?

In addition, this booklet explains in just enough detail the nuts and bolts of ventilators, dialysis, antibiotics, and pain control, and the pros and cons of their use as it relates to end-of-life care.

The ultimate goal of Mr. Dunn’s booklet is to give readers enough information to help them make informed decisions regarding whether to use extra measures to prolong life.

Chaplain Dunn doesn’t stop here. He discusses the spiritual nature of life and death and some of the religious questions surrounding prolonging life in Chapter Five “The Journey to Letting Be. In this chapter, Chaplain Dunn writes:

“We surround ourselves with things and activities to mask the reality of the truth of our impermanence.” “…(I)t seems in our current culture we make every effort to deny its existence and fight ‘to the very end,’ to say ‘it ain’t so.’ It is at this point----whether or not we accept the certainty of our death and the deaths of those we love----where making end-of-life decisions becomes, at bottom, a spiritual issue. To let go we must have the sense that this will be okay even in death.”

Chaplain Dunn includes writings of others:

By Sogyal Rinpoche “We are terrified of letting go, terrified, in fact, of living at all, since learning to live is learning to let go. And this is the tragedy and the irony of our struggle to hold on: not only is it impossible, but it brings us the very pain we are seeking to avoid.”

By Reinhold Niebuhr The Serenity Prayer: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”​